Timeline of Internet

1969

Birth of Internet

- ARPANET commissioned

by DoD for research into networking.

1971

People communicate

over a network

- Email was invented

1973

Global Networking becomes a reality

- First international connections to the ARPANET

: University College of London (England) and Royal

Radar Establishment (Norway)

- File Transfer protocol specified (how computers

send and receive data)

1991

Friendly User Interface to WWW

established

- World-Wide Web (WWW) released

by CERN; Tim-Berners-Lee developer

1999

Wireless Technology

- Commonly known as Wi-

Fi was invented

Source: http://www.netvalley.com/archieves/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm http://fcit.usf.edu/INTERNET/DEFAULT.HTM